You know, I fail to see why the United States should even bother to relinquish control over crucial Internet related functions.
First off, we invented the internet, so there's no reason why we should give up control. The only reason why people want control over the internet, is because they have come to rely in it's massive potential as a communications and commerce tool.
Plus, look who's asking for "international governance", the Russians:
As the conference drew to a close, Russian representative Konstantin Novoderejhkin called on the United Nations secretary-general to create a working group to develop ''practical steps'' for moving Internet governance ''under the control of the international community.''
The Russians want control or at least a partial say over the core of the internet because they are doing everything they can to take things from us such as military technology, financial success, and now, control over the internet.
Let's look at another reason why we shouldn't give up control: It works.
Russia is already trying to copy China's "great firewall" to censor out speech that it deems harmful, so with the track record of the US when it comes to freedom of speech, you think we're about to give up that?
Plus, it's not about controlling it themselves, but taking it away from us.
Besides, there's nothing stopping any of these countries from building their own internet with all of the infrastructure and redundancy built in like we've done. But it's not about that. None of these countries want to actually put forth the effort to build something like that, they just want control over something that's as powerful as the internet, that the United States built.
So fuck em.
Travis
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